Every mother with a daughter
to marry made amiable advances to a man gifted with the virtues which
they attributed to him, as they admired his attractive person; but
Emilie knew, better than any one, that the Vicomte de Longueville had
the steadfast nature in which a wise woman sees a guarantee of
happiness. She looked at the admiral who, to use his favorite
expression, seemed likely to hold his course for a long time yet, and
cursed the follies of her youth.
At this moment Monsieur de Persepolis said with Episcopal grace: "Fair
lady, you have thrown away the king of hearts--I have won. But do not
regret your money. I keep it for my little seminaries."
PARIS, December 1829.
ADDENDUM
The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
Beaudenord, Godefroid de
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
The Firm of Nucingen
Dudley, Lady Arabella
The Lily of the Valley
The Magic Skin
The Secrets of a Princess
A Daughter of Eve
Letters of Two Brides
Fontaine, Comte de
The Chouans
Modeste Mignon
Cesar Birotteau
The Government Clerks
Kergarouet, Comte de
The Purse
Ursule Mirouet
Louis XVIII., Louis-Stanislas-Xavier
The Chouans
The Seamy Side of History
The Gondreville Mystery
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
The Lily of the Valley
Colonel Chabert
The Government Clerks
Manerville, Paul Francois-Joseph, Comte de
The Thirteen
Lost Illusions
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
A Marriage Settlement
Marsay, Henri de
The Thirteen
The Unconscious Humorists
Another Study of Woman
The Lily of the Valley
Father Goriot
Jealousies of a Country Town
Ursule Mirouet
A Marriage Settlement
Lost Illusions
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Letters of Two Brides
Modest Mignon
The Secrets of a Princess
The Gondreville Mystery
A Daughter of Eve
Palma (banker)
The Firm of Nucingen
Cesar Birotteau
Gobseck
Lost Illusions
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Portenduere, Vicomte Savinien de
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Ursule Mirouet
Beatrix
Rastignac, Eugene de
Father Goriot
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
The Interdiction
A Study of Woman
Another Study of Woman
The Magic Skin
The Secrets of a Princess
A Daughter of Eve
The Gondreville Mystery
The Firm of Nucingen
Cousin Betty
The Member for Arcis
The Unconscious Humorists
Vandenesse, Marquise Charles de (Emilie de Fontaine)
Cesar Birotteau
Ursule Mirouet
A Daughter of Eve
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